This year’s parade in Red Square has not only served to celebrate the victory over Nazi Germany. The metamorphosis undertaken a few years ago by Vladimir Putin has culminated, expert in manipulating history, to justify his costly wars. On other occasions, the backdrop that presided over the parade was the wars in Chechnya or Syria. Yesterday was the war of aggression that Russian troops are waging in Ukraine (although he did not mention the name of a country that he considers non-existent). With one difference: that of not being able to exhibit a victory, which is as much as admitting a failure, having not even managed to seize those regions of Ukraine where the community is in the majority Russophone If in other years Putin was able to offer the supposed liberation of the Chechens or that of the Syrians, after raze Grozny or Aleppo, this year not even that, despite the missiles, the bombs and the deaths. The memory of the glorious history of the people and the Red Army has only served to cover up the humiliating defeat their troops have suffered in Ukraine, Until now. Due to not being able, he has not even been able to offer the corpse of the last soldiers resisting the siege of his troops at the Mariupol steel mill.
For a long time, listen to World War II survivors Talking about his exploits was one of the main draws of any stroll through Moscow’s Gorky Park as soon as spring arrived. You didn’t have to be a Russian or a communist to shudder at those Dantesque tales of the great patriotic war that took some 27 million lives from Russia. Only the power of Hollywood managed to steal from him, in half the world, his condition as the main victim and executioner of Nazism. May 9 served for years to remember and honor the protagonists of that feat. Fathers, mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers paraded their chests sewn with medals through the Red Square until, with the passage of time, the survivors became scarcer and the new generations began to look more towards the future. Putin was the first to realize what it would mean to lose this condition of a martyred people, and gave the day of victory a new twist, where the military parade and rhetoric serve their political purposes more than a well-deserved commemoration of the defeat of the Third Reich.
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Putin’s loneliness on the Red Square rostrum, surrounded by elderly generals and world war veterans, but without any foreign agent, not even the ones whose friendship he brags about, it was all a metaphor. If we add to this that the soldiers and officers who are at the front were missing from the parade, or that they have died at the hands of the Ukrainian Army, and that there were fewer armored vehicles than other times, because there has not been time to replace those who have remained destroyed in the wheat fields of the Ukraine, the metaphor is also that of a humiliating defeat. The only thing missing was that the planes destined to cross the Moscow sky forming the Z of the so-called Special Military Operation could not take off due to bad weather, something incomprehensible considering that Putin has had the enthusiastic support of Patriarch Cyril, who is of Moscow and all the Russias. Not surprisingly, under these unfavorable circumstances, none of the predictions came true. Neither proclamation of an impossible victory to sustain, nor flight forward with a declaration of war that would mean recruiting hundreds of thousands of young people who until now have seen the battlefield as a tricky video game.
No one can know what goes through the head of a lonely man like Putin, who dreamed of a military parade that would allow him to put a puppet president in kyiv, as he has them in Grozny or Damascus. In such a way that, to find a logic to such a suicidal act perhaps it is convenient to turn to history, which in Russia explains many things. Chechnya is less than 100 kilometers from the Caspian Sea, Ukraine commands the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea, and Syria has the Mediterranean port of Tartus. Catherine II already knew this, the empress who reigned for 34 years, enough to think that Russia had to add to its natural outlet to the Baltic another in the Mediterranean.